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1913 - 0631.PDF
JUNE I4, 1913. [/JJCHT] FOREIGN AVIATION NEWS. A Maurice Farman Waterplane for the British Navy. AT Hue, on the 4th inst., Maurice Farman was putting a hydro aeroplane, fitted with a iqo-b.p. V-type engine through a number B - WJ machine> which ^s been built to the order of the British Admiralty, also made some long nights on the following day. Buc to Mallly on a Borel. ON the 5th hist., Lieut, de Vergnette made a splendid flight from Buc to Mailly Camp on his Borel, his course being by way of Dijon, Belfort, Epinal and Nancy. Long Flights on Breguets. SERGEANT BRIDOU on a Breguet biplane with Salmson motor, on the 5th inst., made a non-stop flight of over 230 kiloms. from Chalon to Mailly Camp, by way of Mourmelon, Rheims and Sissonne. On a similar machine Lieut. Sensever went from Villacoublay to Valons and back. A Borel Superior Pilot. ON the 4th, Lieut. Delanney on a Borel made his second test for a superior breret by flying from Buc to Pont Levoy and back, his first test having been made over the same course on the previous day. On the 5th inst. he flew from Buc to Mourmelon. Cross - Country on Doutre Biplanes. ON their Doutre bi planes Capt. Chanson and Sergeant Pinsard on the 3rd inst. went from Corbeaulieu to Paris - Plage and returned on the following morning. Rapid Climbing on a Bleriot. TESTING a i6o-h.p. Gnome-Bleriot at Buc, on the 3rd inst., Perreyon climbed 1,000 metres in 2.\ mins., and in a subse quent trial with a pas senger on board the machine attained a simi lar altitude in 3 mins. Rheims to Villacoublay on Deperdusslns. FOR the fourth time within a month Capt. Lagarde and Lieut. Dietrich, on the 4th inst., flew from Rheims to Villacoublay on single- seater Deperdussin mono planes. New Farman Superior Pilots. CAPT. LUCAS AND LTEUT. COLLARD, on the 4th inst., returned from Mailly Camp to Buc on their Maurice Farmans, this being their last cross country test for superior brevets, and on Saturday Lieut. Collard made the altitude test, going up to over 1,800 metres. At Etampes, Touvet, a Comite Nationale pupil, made a 150 kilom. superior brevet test, flying over the Etampes-Mailly Camp course. Etampes to Chalons on a Farman. ON the 6th inst., Capt. Bosquet, accompanied by Capt. Benin, on a 80 h.p. Gnome-Farman, flew from Etampes to Chalons Camp. Mourmelon to Mailly on a Farman, ACCOMPANIED by a passenger, a French non-commissioned officer, Chatelain, on the 6th inst. made a trip through the rain from Mourmelon to Mailly Camp. Lieut. Clement, also on • Farman, made a similar flight, while Capt. Voisin flew with a passenger from Chalons Camp to Rheims and back. Dijon to Epinal on Blerlots. ON his Bleriot-Gnome. Lieut. Gamier, on Saturday flew from Dijon to Epinal, and Corpl. Peguet also made a cross-country voyage of an hour and a-half by way of Troyes, Mailly Camp and Barde Due. More Deperdussin Superior Pilots. Two pupils at the Deperdussin School at Betheny, made qualifying flights for superior bravts on Saturday last, Sapper 11 ostein going from Kheims to Amiens and back, while Sergt. Rap* witch flew over the Rheims-Peronne course. Speed Range Tests on Moranes. SOME interesting tests with Morane-Saul- nier military monoplanes were made at Villacoublay on Saturday last. Brin- dejonc des Moulinais, on an 80-h.p. Gnome two- seater with a light load, obtained a speed range of lietween 6a to 131 k.p.h. Gilbert, on a JO-n.p. Rhone machine .id from 67 to 118 k.p.h. On an 80-h.p. single-seater, Morane obtained a range of between 79 and 153 k.p.h., while Legagneux, on a 50-h.p. Gnome military machine, with a load oi 160 kilogs., did from 71 to 114*4 k.p.h. Buc to Pont-Levoy for Lunch. BY way of making one of his qualifying tests for a military certificate, M. Lasnicr, on Sunday, flew on his Bleriot from Buc to Pon 1 -Levoy, and after lunch he returned to Buc. Vedrines has a Mis hap. JOLSfJ VEDSIMM, who has been flying for some days in Algeria, had a narrow escape from serious accident near Mostaganem on Friday of last week. He was experiencing trouble with his motor, and in at tempting to land his machine fouled some •••li-graph wires and fell to the ground. Fortu nately, however, Ve - escaped with worse than a Model for the monument to be erected at Sangatte in commemoration of the late Hubert Latham, the first man to attempt the cross-Channel flight. This model, which has been accepted by the Aero Club; of France, is the work of the sculptor Georges Veyez, 657 drines nothing shaking.
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